Kanchenjunga from Drohmu, 2005.

Adelaide, Australia

Artist's Description

Jerry on the right, Sikkhim on the left, Tibet behind, so many iconic mountains before us: Kanchenjunga, Kambachen, Wedge Peak, Mera Peak, White Wave and – with head and shoulders showing through – the greatest of them all…Jannu…(Behind Jerry, not in the photo, one could see Makalu, most of the entire Himalaya behind it).

I omitted to mention that my camera broke on this trip. Jamie had to go back to help someone who was in a spot of trouble, and ever-generously (again) lent me his camera, at that time only a little Nikon Coolpix, which had been up Everest and a few other 8000 m places a few times. This picture was stuck together from about 9 or so photos with his camera. The North face and shoulder of Jannu (by my book the most charismatic mountain in the Himalayas, first climed in 2003 by the Russian team who, on its face for three months, never saw the sun in that time), is peeping through the V, center right. Later we mucked around near it…